Category: Personal

I’m starting to assemble the pictures from my 2007 “Summer Tour”.
Starting out of sequence, here are the ones I took in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia along the Skyline Drive. These were made on Monday, 6/25, the day after the CMAA colloquium ended in Washington.
No bloggers were harmed in the process of taking this photo:

Despite being an indoor-geek kind of guy, I’m a fan of botanical gardens, so when I visited Hershey, PA on Monday, 6/18, it was an opportunity to see theirs, including the garden’s butterfly house. Besides, it was too hot to buy chocolate.

More photos are on-line at the links above.

I’m not referring to G-d, but to gadolinium, the rare-earth element whose chemical symbol is Gd. Never did learn enough about those rare-earths in school. Somehow, I’d forgotten that Gd even exists, but was reminded of it today.
Apparently I’m going to get a shot of some Gd compound on Monday when I have a little MRI done on my head (…insert joke here…), as a followup to a hearing test I took this week. No biggie.

My daughter Molly, after getting into the drawer with all of the kids’ rosaries. Note the contemplative look on her face as she begins the Apostles’ Creed:

…and after praying:

We Boston bloggers have two out-of-town visitors at once: Fr. Keyes from Rifugio San Gaspare and my CL co-blogger Eric Johnson are in town, one for vacation and the other for an IT conference. We had supper together at an Italian place in Waltham, and were joined by Mark Sullivan and Eric Ewanco, for a very enjoyable meeting. Fr. Keyes took the photo of me yesterday while I was showing him around the New Hampshire seacoast.

My baby daughter Molly, at an Independence Day celebration yesterday:

Can anyone come up with a good caption?